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it's two thirty pm in moscow these are the top stories here on r t the greek capital is braced for more violence as thousands are gathered by the parliament building for a second day of protest is just hours perform before lawmakers frodo even harsher all sterett he measures live pictures just outside the parliament there in athens all of these measures of course have triggered popular on rast and a general strike. while the greek economic turmoil is the first challenge for the new international monetary fund chief christine lagarde the first woman to head the organization she also faces the tough task of fighting off the perception that the i.m.f. is biased in favor of western countries. and fears grow that unrest in syria might drive up the militant group hezbollah to move weapons of stored there to. levanon

threatening to stoke up further trouble in the region meanwhile israel is reportedly deploying new missile defense systems near its border and. the georgian opposition leader nino burdzhanadze has been in brussels recently as part of around europe trip because it was aimed at giving an inside account of last month's violent police crackdown on protesters were told r.t. that georgia's costly p.r. campaigns can't hide the truth about president saakashvili that's today's interview . week of protests ousting georgian president saakashvili ended in violent dispersal of protesters by their eyes police joining us now to talk of more about that particular circumstance in instances and georgian politics in general is the recognized leader of georgian opposition you know. mr jones you think you very much for joining us today the first question unfortunately will be

a somewhat sad one we will have to ask you about the speech are attributed to your supporters on the there on the night of the protests could you tell us more about what happened that night people to maybe government will use the force against the demonstrators and the we said many times when we appeal to the population into the people who are standing in front of the parliament buildings it may be governmental years of course but these people were really very much of a team they many of them said to me and to us the leader so national assembly directly we are ready for. even for you to the force against us but we will show example for the rest of the population of georgia i think we have to fight for our dignity and for our rights but of course nobody was waiting the. government will they use such a brutal force people nobody was waiting this will be just demonstration of force

and this will be operation to punish the people who are in front of the parliament joy just special forces surrounded the people where in trip there was no way out there was no possibility to leave the square. as we understand special forces received special instructions to arrest all demonstrations and then nine hundred demonstrators have. being arrested that night to beat people brutally especially in the hands heads and many people received serious injuries and were transported to the hospitals and they had to special instruction and not to allow me the leaders of the national assembly to leave. place. so. it was a real punishment to the people and it's not an accidental when one of the main

supporters of the war is this mr bender kids whose quality world knowledge even in . the places said that it was a kid is that the government used to such a brutal force against the demonstrations tomorrow as they will think twice until they will participate in any demonstrations so one person or supporters who died despite the fact that the government was broadcasting king t.v. that he died because of car accident which thanks to my cars which is not serious fortunately there where we do a footage which shows that this person had been beaten until the death by ten fifteen special forces representatives and you conceived video footage on you tube and on our website to following the clampdown many people were arrested a lot of your supporters in fact have gone missing so do you have any information

on their current whereabouts do you know anything about them right now about two hundred seventy eight people are just most of these people have been arrested not only trying to sikhs in the morning but afterwards and all they have. to call the resistance against police results any evidence is real evidences from the side of the government of course sure that these people are political prisoners. they will appeal to the court concerning all these cases what has to change in georgian politics for the country to move forward to step away from its i would say post soviet. style than move forward towards westernized country or to prosper you know i will not say right now that george is a post soviet country it was in two thousand and three into selves and forward to selves and five until two thousand and late two thousand and eight even despite of

the war right now it's a typical soviet style country it's enjoyed you're right now it's a real bullshit. with all signs of soviet regime violation of elementary constitutional norms. while ation of elementary human rights control of media. police and we just doing everything despite of our legal obligations if it's coming from from the political decisions towards a typical soviet country where every person who is against regime is the enemy of the country i remember in soviet time even when i was small. not afterwards during that period but before and i read it in the books but every person who was criticising soviet regime was. supporters or.

secret agent of imperioli right now in georgia is the same you can change the words imperialism with russia and every person who is criticizing saakashvili and who is against he's a regime all of them just beginning for me it's a very serious place. rochelle kremlin we are just trading days we are enemies of the people everything the same and. you can't imagine that as it wasn't for myself. i enjoyed your people right now not everybody of course for. many people are afraid even to call to your place to ask you how are you so afraid to come to the funerals and your. family also people who are not just agree with this regime and if you have a different point of view if you are supporters of

a position you have huge reach very high reason to lose their job to find finding your pulpit drugs or. do you have a high risk to be really just outside of not only political but real life. so this is a typical soviet country modernized i call it the modernized soviet union. which is the ruling right now in my country the perception of the united states officials changed all of the president really has the support windowed would you say and yes without any doubt saakashvili has right now and his regime less personal supports and it was before during president. bush's presidency but you know the problem is that united states is too big and they have too many problems and georgia is not priority number one so that is why quite often i have a feeling that not indeed tales are high officials in the united states know

what reality going on in georgia from another side letter where state department's conclusions in two thousand and nine two thousand and ten where they were speaking about their lead corruption where they were staying at speaking about selective justice but i think that. nevertheless even as this support which that actually had right now has right now this is a mistake from the side of united. states because this kind of support in the eyes of many georgians creating a lot of questions people don't understand why one of the most democratic country in the world continued to support. even less but never still is a regime which is absolutely on the mall critic of the georgian president has been seen as a sort of freedom poster boy by a lot of people in the west not just the united states but in europe as well so right now is your staying here in brussels and meeting with people do you find it

difficult to change that mindset that perception of the georgian president you know mainly the. international community is a no real face of that country quite well of course diplomacy means that they will never say it in public but you can compare our position of these people before two thousand and seven before themselves and before even twenty six of may and right now but of course you need time you need time. to. hold a real face so. really a real face of georgian democracy. lots of community very yeah. a little beast and p.r. company. but nevertheless you can see quite critical articles and send him to you so you can buy many things. always money which is really spending for p.r.

and loves companies but you can't buy everything and everyone you can to lie for a short time to ruin but you can't lie to everybody so it's meant to have time but of course we need to work very seriously and that is why i'm here what has for you personally changed since you left the georgian government and switched over to the opposition side you know my life in the government was not confident. because i had lots of problems with governmental the team. it was very difficult to be responsible for the many decisions which was not supported in the close circle from my side but i am a person who is playing according groups as i was a part of the team quite often i was taking responsibility for the decisions which . was decided despite my protest and despite of my.

decisions but i was a part of the team when i saw that. i don't want to continue like that i don't want to be responsible in front of my people for what i was think is not right but never still it. was done by the government i decided to leave you know personally of course being the speaker of the parliament more confortable you have security you have a lot of people around the you have just as there are a lot of people around who are trying just to say at least hello to you right now of course many things have been changed even for my friends let's say trying to avoid to see your speak with you or sometimes just making just. doing that in this case that they didn't see you in just the public places and of course it's a personally not not comfortable. to be leader of

a position party enjoyed your really difficult because there you are responsible into in front of the people who trust you. and you can't protect these people even when you know that these people are absolutely innocent and right and of course the emotional it's very difficult i remember. i can tell you is that even more difficult for me was twenty six days. twenty seven says that and that night until i received any information that some people had been died when i was on. the side of special forces more difficult it was the second day said day when i was receiving every minute in my phone information that this person had been arrested that person had been arrested this person just we don't know where he is and you have you can't do anything absolutely to protect these people. mean any case you

can just don't think you'll have to continue to fight we're wishing you the best in all of your endeavors thank you very much for coming in talking to us thank you. well. reviewed the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on our.

party's top stories fresh violence erupts in the greek capital live pictures here as protesters trying to prevent lawmakers from entering parliament clashing with police it's the second day of on grass was restrained by new austerity measures to be voted on later on on wednesday. the greek economic turmoil is the first challenge for the new international monetary fund chief christine lagarde the first woman to head the organization she also faces the tough task of fighting off the perception that the i.m.f. is biased in favor of western countries. and fears grow that unrest in syria might try for the militant group hezbollah to move weapons it's stored there to lebannon threatening to stoke up further trouble in the region meanwhile israel is reportedly to point a new missile defense systems near its border with lebanon. more details on all those stories coming up in fifteen minutes let's move to sport now gramont closer

to inside and eastern europe seems to be dominating the ladies event at wimbledon that's right so got three players representing a rush said the czech republic they're all through to the semifinals in london plus so there is a surprise that wildcard from germany these cells on that in just moments. hello welcome to sport in our sea coming to you live from moscow i'm on call sort of and these are the headlines the red hot favorites maria sharapova thrashes the many gods who book come by in under an hour and will play wildcard sabine lisicki in the semifinals at wimbledon. while it's a job former world cup referee repairers or is it he signs up to oversee the progress of russia's the match officials. and thrill seekers are the profiles arguably the arguably the most dangerous and daring sport on the planet in the

feature on cliff diving. first tennis where maria sharapova has stormed into the semifinals at wimbledon after thrashing. in straight sets on a rain affected day in london it looked like a walk in the park for sharapova who also won the grass court grand slam back in two thousand and four the fifth seeded russian needed just one hour flat to brush aside just watching her off the real world eight great games at one point to seal an easy six one six one win and has become one of the favorites to win the title she has yet to drop a set. it's great the fact that i had the experience of being. in those stages but i haven't been for a while so it's a nice infection feeling to have and. put a lot of work into to get to this stage but i still feel like. the tournaments and i know that we still have a few more girls that are. standing in the way next is young german sabine lisicki

who was watched by u.s. open golf jabir rory mcilroy that's when you won your old wildcard shellshocked number nine seed bartoli the frenchwoman had knocked out last year's winner serena williams in the fourth round loss the opening set before battling back to win the second one a hard fought so i break last that moment since you can see the decider six one battling into her maiden grand slam semifinal after hitting a stunning fifth it's a winners along the way which is also the first german to reach the last four at a major event since stiffly graph right here at wimbledon in one thousand nine hundred ninety. it was definitely a really tough match against me. she really likes to play on grass and she plays well and. i was i really wanted to win you know i gave it all i had i was fighting for each point and i didn't want to let it slip away meanwhile check number eight seed bedrock. second straight wimbledon semi final

after a gritty three set victory over bulgaria spit on a pironkova despite losing the second set managed to find a strength and closed out the match with her ninth. i'm so happy to win the first game and said that i am bringing her. the match between austria's to mirror a project and number four seed victoria azarenka was stopped due to rain after just one game and resumed after moving to center court from court one the move did not put off azhar and co who are class her opponents to secure a six three six one victory in the last four she will face could be. playing pretty well you know looking at their rankings and everybody keeps saying oh you should have been in the semifinal so it was a great win for me you know to finally go through that it was important and i'm just happy to be to be in the semifinal i'm looking forward to work even harder now

mansker. the final six hundred stage on wednesday where all of this all for seeds are through to the last day the world number one rafael nadal will face more to fish from the united states in the quarterfinals another spaniard lopez will play the crowd favorite and also frenchman something will face a rush etc after beating the air in the previous round while stakes on rising star . from australia. now following the arrival of world cup winner roberto carlos there's been another high profile appointments in russian football former referee roberto resent he is taking charge of the country's match officials the forty three year old it's out and has been brought in by the russian football union following the sacking over of his predecessor zoo if in march it was that he joins on a four year deal and one of his tasks is to encourage youngsters to become professional referees and prepare them for international careers now resent his own career spanned twenty seven years and came to a surprise and at last year's world cup in south africa he fell out of favor with

the fall after a controversial decision to argentina versus mexico last sixteen a match and it's over it's ours so nasser that incidentally fellow former coach and mentor appear luigi collina is doing the same job in ukraine. now let's move to the lighter side of the sports there are many different versions of the beautiful game these days such as many football beach soccer and food but arguably. as messy as this now it's known as swamp soccer and it's the world cup has just been held in the scottish capital edinburgh the sport was introduced to the u.k. for the first time five years ago and is apparently on the way to becoming a worldwide phenomenon tournaments are held across the globe including countries such as brazil poland and russia the final in that one so the russian setter crushed english side jesus muscling six nails scoreline russia because. the latest

swarm saw her world champions. in really good. so i want to come back but i probably wind. up going to get that again. yeah i think my mom's washing machines probably going to die. over to some extreme action cliff diving it only became competitive in the year two thousand but it was quick to attract thousands of spectators robert takes a closer look at arguably one of the most challenging and eye catching sports on the planet. into suppresion. diri. freedom. three steps forward by resurfacing didn't know until this world dealing with any kind diver price for the sport a week during peace just proving there is nothing impossible the only things we

seem to be deadly playing dice from the dizzy heights of pool with twenty seven meters. almost three seconds of freefall entering the water it is beautiful most hundred to one of those. this is one of the most dangerous sports in the planet it's just a slight mistake may result in broken boots much worse. in didn't talk over speak they have to fight their nerves before every single high dive. yes it's peer but it's not panic it's good when you're scared off it would be far more dangerous if we weren't scared and before any high dive i realise how risky it is but you should be positive it is. scary. but that's part of the enjoyment. there is a danger factor but we train. for many many years to

become divers. professional. high quality and so the risk of danger is minimalize this is the fringe serial flitter shared police where the brits taking a hike conditions. come together to challenge elite cleaved divers for the two for high diving comes within just a few hours of the high tide while a stiff atlantic breeze of up to eighty kilometers parole makes the scene the closest old platform one of the toughest sports the world fleet diving series have to all four with a win like this it's a bit hard to stand there on the platform and one of the when more important you'll have to keep your belt on for the high dive but. these guys proved they've go it takes until i said dangerous weather conditions and the need for itself but all the pressure and research these dear devils take they all as they were at the get in

the end piece to them priceless you turn to the surface and take a deep breath. and it is such a big really you and you've built up so much emotions before the dawn. finally when you when you hit the water everything's ok you know so i really. it's a long describable feeling same with the feeling you get doing high dogs can hardly be compared to anything it's a competition it gives you an amazing drive especially when all the best gift ever come together and you manage to. it's extreme. it's been competitive since the year two thousand each passing season takes yet more skill than completed it does to win one perfect we want that perfect position then the perfect autumn just because it brings a nation new elements doesn't mean that the church has to give all points for this

we want perfection we're looking for perfection and we judge according to. the biggest little crowd of seventy thousand spectators witnessed twelve men demonstrate their stunning abilities in the latest flick of the world keep getting serious. it's become a colossal cliff diving is an up and coming sport there are a lot of different locations all over the globe which can host high diving competitions i'm a classic platform diaper and i sport never attracted as many spectators as cliff diving never do the french leg comes to the rules and spills continue to. stay tuned for the build up to the. public but in the party. for they'll be more sport with kate and a couple of hours but you can have your say about stories seen right here on our you tube channel arch artsy sports news and you can do that and it's thanks for

watching. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on the. culture is that so much going to huge visitors to our economy look i'm going to mark the freedom flotilla two point zero four thousand procol is to me an activist from twenty two countries perspective joint freedom flotilla two in it.